INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[DuckGirl77]

Why go through all that trouble? You aren't feeding children. If you want to give them peanut butter, give them peanut butter. Honey, baking powder and salt probably wouldn't be the best idea.

Brewer's yeast is the way to go.

It may have protein but as a vegetative source, it will be incomplete in essential amino acids.

Hence the name, duckweed.

If the fish are herbivorous, they'll likely eat it. If they're carnivorous, like cichlids, they won't. If they're omnivorous, they may. If they're micro-predators, likely not.

True. Peanut butter's not healthy for them, though, is it?

Good to know about duckweed. I suppose an incomplete food like that would decrease the amount of eggs I get?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

True. Peanut butter's not healthy for them, though, is it?

Good to know about duckweed. I suppose an incomplete food like that would decrease the amount of eggs I get?

I don't think peanut butter would be a problem. But my point was, why go through the trouble of making cookies for ducks?
Not if it is just a supplement and they're still getting a complete feed.

 

[DuckGirl77]

I don't think peanut butter would be a problem. But my point was, why go through the trouble of making cookies for ducks?
Not if it is just a supplement and they're still getting a complete feed.

Oh, good point. I guess I don't need to make it more complicated!

Ok, thanks!

 

[BantyChooks]

Incubating W/ Friends Hatcher list

Birthdays:


BantyChooks AKA Banti or Bubbles
14 shipped EE eggs.

Chaos18 AKA Trouble or Chaos
6 eggs on day iforget. Update: 1 egg in lockdown 7/8

MotorcycleChick AKA MC or Abi
22 total Silver Pencil Rock eggs set 7/8 The girls are sharing a nest again, so they only have four. The other 18 are in the incubator.

kwhites634 AKA Whites, Whitey, Ken, Red Dog..... Just not late for supper
Broody: 5 RSL x BCM eggs, and she'd pushed one of them out....I gave it back to her, but there's probably something wrong with it, or she wouldn't have pushed it out.
Incubator: 12 BCM x RSL due the 4th....don't look for many to hatch out, though...several clears...only movement in 1 when I checked 2 days ago. UPDATE! 4 hatched, 7 left!

daxigait AKA Dax or Daxi
Broody has eight eggs 6/24, but I don't know how many are fertile since my cockerels are young and only with the hens on the odd evening. Green egg layers CL over OE/BSL/BR/RIR.
*Update*
One more week for my broody, but it is supposed to be really hot (heat index today 107 for example). hatch 14/15

Jessimom AKA Kathy
I have 14 BCM that gotro17 had shipped, 4 legbars (I think were also shipped), along with I think 12 of my backyard chicken eggs - these are on day 10. And I set 28???? eggs 2 days ago. It's a mix of gotro17's backyard mix eggs, and mine. I'll do an accurate count if I ever candle them.

Mine are probably not all fertile, Since we pulled the roosters several weeks ago, and the baby roos were just starting to figure out how to play with the girls when they started to crow and got pulled.. I currently have a BEAUTIFUL Salmon Favorelle and 2 black silkie roos in my basement. Waiting until I figure out what we are going to do with them.

I also have 2 broodies sitting on eggs. Not sure how far along, or how many eggs. They both should be getting close though.

Pensmaster Known as Uncle Pen to some, Pensmaster to the rest
13 Altsterier eggs under broody. Started 6-24. Three candled yesterday when the hen got off for water all three growing beautifully. Surprised as they were abandoned a couple times and eggs were washed.

mlm Mike AKA Mike or Mikemikemikemikemike

Broody hen w/ icelandics

casportpony AKA Kathy or Kat
Set a gazzilion pea eggs last night, so should see some chicks in 26-29 days from now. Also have another 12 or so due this month, I think, but I don't remember when I set them.


LittleLakePhil AKA Phil
I just set 12 Khaki Campbell duck eggs in my Brinsea.....hopefully they will hatch while my grand daughter is here visiting.....

sasafras4u2
When I got home early am I had one lavender orpington hatched this morning when I got up at 730 there is another lavender and a chocolate cookcoo cross. Still waiting on the other few 4 of them are 3 days behind so I should be hatching all weekend. Lol. There was only 10 surviving eggs to start with.

attimus AKA Zach
8 hona
5 Hmong
6 cemani(possible Hmong crosses)
All on day 7, checked one egg last night, veining. Candling the rest tonight.

Egg update.
Incubator was unplugged for my entire shift at work last night. Returned to normal working conditions upon realization. Am not optimistic at this point but stranger things have happened.

megan805
Hi everyone have 16 eggs in bator, Olive egger and blue birchan maran should be fun due the 26th.

Leave a LightOn
Six LF Wheaten Ameraucana under bantam D'uccle since 6/27. Broody holding tight day 11. No leakers or stinkers. One poopy and cleaned today.

danielkbrantley
@danielkbrantley Update please?


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[BullChick]

Then neeeeevermind about putting it in the aquarium!  I think I'll get some for the chickens and ducks, though.

Good idea.

 

[BullChick]

I plan on not having a birthday on Thursday.
@BantyChooks

 

[Pensmaster]

@BantyChooks
Don't know proper means of tagging. Hope this is it.

Hen is still with the eggs. Due on Friday.

 

[DuckGirl77]

So how much niacin do waterfowl require? It should be at least 55 parts per million (ppm). This is the same as 55mg per kilogram of feed or 55mg per 2.2 pounds of feed.

Alright, change of plans! I don't have purina flock raiser, but instead manna pro poultry conditioner, which has 80 mg of niacin per lb. This can only be up to 25% of the ducks feed, though. So .... I'll do the math and see how much niacin that would be, but is this ok?

I also have nutritional yeast, but I read on another thread that there's way more niacin in that than in brewers yeast. I'll see if I can find the link. Why is nutritional yeast the wrong thing to give ducks?

I might be able to get plain niacin or brewers yeast tomorrow, but who knows?! This is not going well at all. Who knew plain old regular niacin or brewers yeast was so hard to find?!!!

 

[BullChick]

@Chaos18 what happened to the egg that was due yesterday?

 

[BullChick]

Alright, change of plans! I don't have purina flock raiser, but instead manna pro poultry conditioner, which has 80 mg of niacin per lb. This can only be up to 25% of the ducks feed, though. So .... I'll do the math and see how much niacin that would be, but is this ok? :/  I also have nutritional yeast, but I read on another thread that there's way more niacin in that than in brewers yeast. I'll see if I can find the link. Why is nutritional yeast the wrong thing to give ducks?
 I might be able to get plain niacin or brewers yeast tomorrow, but who knows?! This is not going well at all. Who knew plain old regular niacin or brewers yeast was so hard to find?!!!  

I can only answer that last part. The answer is, everyone with ducks knows how hard that stuff is to find!